Egypt's interior minister said on Saturday police arrested members of an Al-Qaeda linked cell that plotted to carry out a suicide bombing against a Western embassy and other targets in the country. Police "have delivered a successful blow against a terror cell plotting suicide bomb attacks," including a plot to attack a Western embassy which was in its final stages, Mohammed Ibrahim said at a press conference. The minister did not identify the embassy. se/jds

A suicide bomber targeted the home of a senior Iraqi intelligence officer north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing three people, while three more died in other attacks, officials said. The bomber detonated a small tanker truck at the home of police Brigadier General Ismail al-Juburi, a senior officer for Nineveh province, killing his son, nephew and sister-in-law -- and wounding 21 others, police and a doctor said. It was not immediately clear if Juburi was present at the time of the attack, which took place in the Al-Sharqat area.

OTTAWA - A terror suspect recently arrested in the United States did not enter that country from Canada, the federal government said Friday. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney suggested the Tunisian-born man, who had been studying in Canada, could not actually have been here when he entered. "When we became aware of security concerns, he was back in Tunisia, and his study permit was not renewed," Kenney told a news conference.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday hit out at gunmen he called "armed terrorists" who launched attacks on military barracks, a prison and police stations in Bama town in which 55 people were killed. A statement released by his office in Abuja said Jonathan warned that his government's consideration of dialogue with insurgents should not be seen as a sign of weakness.